Los últimos cinco días antes de la eternidad: el mancebo de Tezcatlipoca

Abstract

Every year, the Aztec pod of Darkness, Tezcatlipoca, used to take form in a human being and live in that way amoung his people. In that occasion, a young man of high rank and without physical flawness was chosen among the captives of war and glven during one year all the delights a human existence could appord. The last five days of the living image of the god were particularly ordonated so to represent symbolically the major and most fundamental values of the religious, political, social, etc... aspects of the society,